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Emirates Takes Arsenal on Pre-season Tour in Style

Hi everyone,Arsenal embarked on a pre-season tour in Singapore and travelled in style with Emirates. The UAE airline spent large to take the gunners to the Barclays Asia Trophy.

The London side headed east on a specially-customised Arsenal Boeing 777-200LR, featuring the crest on the fuselage.

Images of star players Aaron Ramsey, Danny Welbeck, Mikel Arteta and Jack Wilshere adorn one side of the aircraft, while Santi Cazorla, Mesut Özil, Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud have been included on the other. Menus and headrests on board have also been given an Arsenal theme.

Ramsey was particularly impressed to see himself on the design, tweeting: “Bit surreal but very cool to see myself on the side of an @emirates plane.”

Arsenal face a Singapore Select XI on Wednesday and then either Everton or Stoke City at the weekend in the Barclays Asia Trophy 2015 at the National Stadium in Singapore.

While the team are in action, the aircraft will be used to service some of the Dubai carrier’s other routes before picking the team up at the end of the week, a spokesperson for Emirates said.

Arsenal, who qualified for the forthcoming season’s Uefa Champions League competition after finishing third in the EPL, are planning to use the aircraft for this tour only at the moment, the spokesperson added.

Emirates’ sponsorship of Arsenal started in 2004, with its shirt sponsorship expanded in 2006 to include naming rights to the club’s stadium.